(not satire – it’s the UK today!)
Rifkind has resigned as Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee.
In his resignation statement, Rifkind reckons that the fact he was prepared to be in the pay of the Chinese is not “relevant to my work as chairman of the intelligence and security committee”.
Really?
Anyway, here’s Rifkind’s bizarre resignation statement:
“None one of the current controversy with which I am associated is relevant to my work as chairman of the intelligence and security committee of parliament.
However, I have today informed my colleagues that while I will remain a member of the committee, I will step down from the chairmanship.
The committee is due to be dissolved in little over a month with the prorogation of parliament for the forthcoming general election. The main substantive work which needs to be completed will be the publication of our privacy and security report during March.
I do not want the work of the committee and the publication of the report to be, in any way, distracted or affected by controversy as to my personal position. I have concluded, therefore, that it is better that this important work should be presided over by a new chairman.”
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This weeks (well it seems like its almost daily) “Cockwombling fuckwit” award goes to Rifkind, along with a lesser “fuckwit” award to Straw, who lets face it would have also had a Cockwobling fuckwit award had he not kept his gob shut and not “resigned” so quickly after also being found out.
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Tom Pride reporting on Malcolm Rifkind’s babbling resignation statement.
RIFKIND: “I do not want the work of the committee and the publication of the report to be, in any way, distracted or affected by controversy as to my personal position.”
Ah, now there’s a very familiar bit of verbiage when under investigation for possible sleaze/corruption – calling the matter a ‘distraction’. Usually an attempt to make what the speaker has done wrong sound trivial and irrelevant, even though it is not trivial or irrelevant enough for him to stay in the job.
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ALL members of the ISC should be held personally accountable if they knew about this: “AMERICAN AND BRITISH spies hacked into the internal computer network of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world” http://interc.pt/1COE51C
So much better oversight and accountability of GCHQ and the ISC required.
Why is nothing being done?
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Thats the trouble he doesn’t think he’s done nothing wrong
but all criminals will say that they are innocent jeff3
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Why doesn’t he resign now – not at the election – the man is scum
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Like hell it’s not COMMUNIST SYMPATHISER, should spend the rest of his life locked up
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The government seems to have a remarkably lax view of the security threat posed by Chinese investment, and Rifkind is certainly not alone in this. It seems to be official Tory policy. A little while ago Private Eye mentioned the security implications of Huawei gaining an important government telecoms contract. Huawei is a Chinese company, which also does work for the Chinese military. Despite this obvious security risk, the government felt that it was perfectly acceptable to be given the contract for government work in this country.
It makes you wonder precisely who the government are working for. Once upon a time, when entrepreneurs of foreign extraction were particularly successful, the Tory Right immediately screamed that they were a threat to security. Like the German Jewish industrialist Mond during the First World War. But as all this is being done by pukka old Etonian aristos, it’s all perfectly acceptable and in Britain’s interest.
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Rifkind should be thrown off the committee. He should also be stripped over his Knighthood as he can go to the HoL and be paid £300 per day and still get information about the committee. He should be made to resign now as he’s actually a threat to this country.
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My father once told me of a visit Mountbatten made to his school in which he told them that the big threat to Britain in the future would be from China, not from the Russians. A lot of people today are positively enthusiastic for the day that China becomes the predominant super-power. The should take a good look at China’s internal politics in which Capitalist iniquity, Communist oppression and the suppression of religious minorities are all too common.
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I wonder if Malcolm Rifkind guilty of some sort of treason? Is there not some law that prevents and punishes this sort of thing?
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